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"Before you know it as the years go by, you're just like other people you have seen, with all those peculiar human ailments. Just another vehicle for temper and vanity and rashness and all the rest. Who wants it? Who needs it? These things occupy the place where a man's soul should be." -- Henderson the Rain King

Thursday, March 17, 2005

Fever Pitch

Book #14 was Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby. Fever Pitch is a memoir that follows Hornby's 35+ year obsession with the British football team Arsenal. I didn't know much about the British soccer league before reading his book, but his love for his team will ring true for any sports fan. Hornby is funny as always, telling great stories about things like skipping a friend's birthday party to watch his the Arsenal, having a hard time deciding whether to leave a game to check on his girlfriend who has fainted, etc. It's easy to laugh at his stories, but as a sports fan it's also scary how true some of his observations are.

Later this year, 20th Century Fox is releasing a movie that's supposedly based on the book. The movie stars Drew Barrymore and Jimmy Fallon (why?) who plays a life long Boston Red Sox fan. How you can take a book about soccer and turn it into a romantic comedy about baseball is beyond me, but what do I know?

posted by Jamie at 11:47 PM

1 Comments:

Blogger Jill said...

They actually already made fever pitch a movie once, to boot. It was in the UK with Nick Horby writing the screenplay and the movie. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119114/

12:08 PM

 

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